What Parish Are You From? : A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations

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For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMahon, Eileen M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
St. Sabina's (Church : Chicago, Ill.)
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church > Case studies.
Race relations > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Race relations.
Parishes.
Irish Americans.
Catholics.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Paroisses > Illinois > Chicago > Études de cas.
Americains d'origine irlandaise > Illinois > Chicago > Études de cas.
Relations raciales > Aspect religieux > Église catholique.
Catholiques > Illinois > Chicago.
Parishes > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies.
Irish Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies.
Catholics > Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethno-religious distinctions gave way to racial differences as a central point of identity and conflict. For most of this century the parish served as an i.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780813149271

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